Full Stack Engineer, Messaging Platform & Tooling Pa

The Freemium R&D team oversees the entire user journey on Spotify and ensures we engage with people in innovative ways, every step of the way. Our team grows Spotify’s audience by finding future listeners around the world and delivering the right value to them, at the right time. With research, product development, product design, engineering, and marketing all collaborating in one organization, we’re able to quickly create meaningful features and services for millions of people around the world, resulting in joyful, long-lasting relationships with Spotify.

As a Full Stack engineer in the Freemium Business Unit, you will have the opportunity to have a significant impact on Spotify’s growth by reaching new users, markets and audiences. We achieve this by truly understanding the needs of our users, and by innovating to tackle real problems for them, building solutions across the entire Spotify infrastructure to support our goal.

This position in the Messaging Platform & Tooling team leads a critical platform piece, an internal website that operators use to deliver emails, push notifications and in-app messaging for the entire Spotify user base. The platform supports the creation, targeting, selection and delivery insights of Billions of messages across different channels.

What You'll Do

• Monitor, test and continuously optimize your designs
• Work on a multi-functional team of engineers who own the operator facing messaging web application
• Primarily be involved in frontend development, as well as some backend development
• Complete and deliver impactful features on the core web applications to improve workflows for our operators
• Share your knowledge, promote standard processes, and collaborate with some of the best engineers in the company
• Be a valued contributor in a multi-functional agile team
• Deliver testable, maintainable and high-quality code
• Collaborate with other software engineers, product managers, designers, analysts and leaders around the company

Who You Are

• You value team success over personal success, and have the ability to both up-lift and up-level other engineers
• You believe data and metrics are the most powerful tools for informed decision-making
• You love working in an environment where you constantly deliver and iterate quickly
• You understand the importance of observability and monitoring
• You have experience working directly with designers, product owners and collaborators to understand, document and develop web features to meet their requirements, driving increased adoption and reducing reliance on custom one-off implementations
• You hold yourself and others accountable, taking responsibility for every last detail, every step of the way
• You are proficient in the following: JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Styled Components and GraphQL. You have experience with at least one modern backend programming language
• You have some experience in backend development and building APIs that glue frontend features together
• You have a good understanding of system design, api, and ui/ux design
• You are autonomous, taking full ownership of your work and driving your personal development
• You have a good understanding of JS design patterns, data structures, web architecture and understand how to apply them to craft pragmatic solutions
• You’re a developer with 3+ years of working experience as a Full Stack Engineer
• You have excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, and can communicate your ideas, and bring others along in your thinking

Where You'll Be

• Prefer an office to work from home instead? Not a problem! We have plenty of options for your working preferences. Find more information about our Work From Anywhere options here
• Where in the world? For this role, it can be within East coast Americas in which we have a work location and is within working hours.
• We are a distributed workforce enabling our band members to find a work mode that is best for them!

The United States base range for this position $140,246 - $175,308, plus equity. The benefits available for this position include health insurance, six months of paid parental leave, 401(k) retirement plan, monthly meal allowance, 23 paid days off, and 13 paid flexible holidays, paid sick leave. These ranges may be modified in the future.

Spotify is an equal opportunity employer. You are welcome at Spotify for who you are, no matter where you come from, what you look like, or what’s playing in your headphones. Our platform is for everyone, and so is our workplace. The more voices we have represented and amplified in our business, the more we will all thrive, contribute, and be forward-thinking! So bring us your personal experience, your perspectives, and your background. It’s in our differences that we will find the power to keep revolutionizing the way the world listens.

Spotify transformed music listening forever when we launched in 2008. Our mission is to unlock the potential of human creativity by giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the chance to enjoy and be passionate about these creators. Everything we do is driven by our love for music and podcasting. Today, we are the world’s most popular audio streaming subscription service.